In the basement, across the hall from my lab, there are three plastic-covered collages made up of formula sheets from long-ago exams. One of my colleagues let the students in a Physics for Pre-Meds class write whatever they wanted on one sheet of paper to bring into the final, and made art from the collected pages after the test.<\/p>\n
I was thinking about this last night as I graded last Thursday’s exams, looking at the formula sheets I collected from the students. The range of things that people decide to immortalize on paper is pretty impressive.<\/p>\n
Of course, such sheets are not universally loved, so I thought I’d throw this out as a two-question quasi-poll:<\/p>\n
\n1) When you were a student, were you allowed to bring homemade formula sheets to exams?<\/p>\n
2) Do you think that students ought to be able to bring homemade formula sheets to exams?<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n
Leave your answers in the comments. I’ll compile them later, and explain my own opinion on the subject.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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